'Faster horses': Blockchain to combat trade fraud
Speakers at a blockchain conference at Barclays’ fintech innovation hub, Rise, in East London, emphasised the technology’s potential for replacing paper documents and...
Speakers at a blockchain conference at Barclays’ fintech innovation hub, Rise, in East London, emphasised the technology’s potential for replacing paper documents and...
Over the coming days, FintechWeek teases out the new challenges facing the fintech industry as anxieties over London’s role as a financial centre take shape.
Fintech, via mobile platforms, is the best way to ensure liquidity for African SMEs struggling in a climate of worldwide withdrawal from risky markets and small-scale...
French credit risk insurer Coface has warned that increased losses from Latin America and Asia for 2015 could cut into 2016 annual profits.
On the sidelines of our Natural Resources and Commodities Finance conference in Amsterdam, we caught up with Deutsche Bank's global head of structured commodity trade...
Trafigura’s exit from the Swiss Trading and Shipping Association demonstrates the effect of past mistakes on its current transparency agenda, and the different priorities...
China’s One Belt, One Road initiative spans continents and oceans, and is set to become the largest regional trade network in the world. Financial institutions in China...
Russian fertiliser producer PhosAgro’s debut PXF is testing market appetite ahead of a planned Eurodollar bond issuance, as Russian exporters benefit from a weak rouble...
Trade finance is being increasingly neglected as banks refocus on core markets and slash costs in the face of mounting risks and regulatory pressures. It’s an area of...
Africa’s second largest and most sophisticated economy risks a heavy blow to its ability to attract financing if, as experts widely predict, its credit rating is...
Cargill and Bunge stood out as the only traders not to cut ties with Malaysian palm oil producer IOI after its sustainability certificate was suspended, throwing up...
A trade finance fraud expert says despite efforts to combat it, fraud is on the increase due to volatile commodity markets increasing the opportunities to skim profits.
On the sidelines of TXF's Trade, Treasury and Fintech conference in London, we caught up with Tom Dunn, chairman of Orbian, getting his perspective on the biggest...
Fabio Manca, chief financial officer of DHL, gives an exclusive interview to TXF at our London conference, discussing the evolving supply chain finance landscape.
All the British EU referendum seems to have been good for so far is trading insults - as emotions run high in the last few days before the historic 23 June vote, and...
Factoring volumes are growing as supply chain finance offers low-risk financing in highly risk-averse trade finance markets, new figures from a factoring consortium show,...
The industry had its say about the best institutions and players in commodity and export & agency finance for our annual Best in Class awards. The winners in each...
China Eximbank is advancing a $500 million loan to Ethiopia towards the construction of an industrial park in Adama, in the latest rapprochement between the two...
The export and project finance community has its say on the biggest issues in their market in our audience survey at TXF's Export, Agency and Project Finance conference...
The commodities trading powerhouse today confirmed the sale of just under 10% of its Glencore Agri business, continuing divestment in the context of ambitious debt...
In February the Berne Union and the ICC convened a meeting of export finance practitioners to discuss the future of sustainability in the industry. The key message? A more holisitic approach is required to appropriately balance risk and impact.